Designer Spotlight: June 2026

June 2, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Aimee Harrison

Aimee and I didn’t manage to squeeze in a chat… too much on the go for both of us. But I decided I really should do at least a little blurb for all the Designers with whom, for whatever reason, I don’t get to chat with – instead of just not doing anything. From today forward. 😉 And I’m late-ish today, having spent the morning at Urgent Care. (Nothing to worry about, just one of those old-lady problems that needed to be promptly addressed.)

Of course, if you’re here, you know Aimee is providing the June Daily Download, and can collect all the mini-files that make up the full kit.

You can find her Store here.

Aimee is hosting the Designer Spotlight Challenge as well as her usual Color Challenge. Give them a look!

I don’t have a coupon code for you today, but it looks like most of Aimee’s Store is currently 50% off. (Bundles and some Styles are excluded.) Aimee is one of my favourite Designers, so I highly recommend you check out her deals!!

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June 1 2026: New Buffet, Fresh Baked, NEW Guest Designer and SO MUCH MORE!

June 1, 2026 by Leave a Comment

It’s a brand-new month at Gingerscraps, and we have so much in store for you! Be sure to check out our new Free With Purchase, Monthly Mix, Challenge Reward, and Daily Download. We’re also excited to welcome a new Guest Designer. Stop by and see all the wonderful new products, promotions, and inspiration waiting for you this month!

Next let’s look at the June Buffet. Don’t forget to check out the Buffet Bundles. One easy click to add bundles of Buffet goodies to your cart.

I love that these colors are not your typical “summer” colors. The designers did a great job (as usual). Remember that you can combine any of the buffet kits to make your own collection.

Stonehaven Cottage invites you into a romantic forgotten estate where beauty quietly blooms once again. Inspired by the charm of an old English manor slowly returning to life, this collection is filled with moss covered statues, overgrown roses, wildflowers, aged stone paths, weathered benches, antique florals, and delicate worn lace textures. The muted and slightly dark palette of rich vintage tones creates an atmosphere that feels timeless, weathered, and softly mysterious. Every detail of Stonehaven Cottage evokes the feeling of wandering through hidden gardens and forgotten pathways where nature and history intertwine. Perfect for heritage photos, romantic storytelling, garden inspired layouts, and dreamy vintage pages, this kit captures the beauty of things lovingly worn by time.

This collab includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase & Numbers}, 51 Papers, and 87 Elements.

This Free With Purchase was created by Memory Mosaic, ScrapChat Designs, Scraps N Pieces, and Tami Miller Designs.

Oceanside captures the carefree spirit of summer by the sea. Filled with breezy beach vibes, ocean inspired elements, and sunny seasonal charm, this kit is perfect for documenting vacations, sandy toes, salty air, and unforgettable summer memories. Whether you are scrapping days spent by the waves, relaxing coastal evenings, or family adventures along the shore, Oceanside brings the warmth and beauty of the beach to every page.

This kit includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 48 Papers, and 82 Elements.

This Monthly Mix was created by Adrienne Skelton, Key Lime Digi Design, Lindsay Jane,  and Magical Scraps Galore.

June’s Daily Download is provided by Aimee Harrison Designs. Stop by the blog each day in June to collect pieces of this beautiful kit.

We are excited to announce we have a new Guest Designer starting in June.

GS Creations

BIO:

Hi, it’s Gaye from GSCreations, I’ve been designing scrapbook supplies since around 2009, I’ve lost count of the years but I do know that if I don’t get my daily fix of coffee and creative time I can be a little grumpy around the edges……..  I live with my family and fur babies in the small town of George, Western Cape South Africa where we are blessed with blue skies, mountains and the sea. My biggest hope is that my products bring a smile to your face and inspiration to create. xoxo hugs

Take a look at the new challenge reward kit. If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab (or a variety of other choices from previous challenge collabs) as a reward!

Coffee Shop is a warm and cozy collection inspired by your favorite neighborhood café. Designed in a natural palette of rich browns, creamy neutrals, and soft tan tones, this kit is filled with everything coffee lovers adore. You will find mugs, coffee pots, coffee stained accents, beans, café signs, sweet treats, and comforting details that perfectly capture the atmosphere of a relaxing coffee shop visit. Whether you are documenting morning routines, café meetups, cozy conversations, or your love for coffee itself, Coffee Shop brings warmth and comfort to every layout.

This kit includes: 1 Alpha1 {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 48 Papers, and 98 Elements.

This Challenge Reward was created by ADB Designs, The Scrappy Kat, The Brit Chick,  and Palvinka Designs.

Take a look at these beautiful samples created by the GS Creative Team. These were done using the June Monthly Mix, Oceanside.

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Fresh Baked Friday @ Gingerscraps: May 29, 2026

May 29, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Happy Friday Friends!!

Fresh inspiration has arrived in the shop! We’re excited to share a brand-new collection of digital scrapbooking kits packed with gorgeous colors, creative elements, and versatile papers perfect for your next project. Plus, don’t miss your last chance to grab this month’s Monthly Mix at this price before the month ends! And there’s even more excitement ahead… we’ll be introducing a fabulous new guest designer very soon, so stay tuned for the June Buffet newsletter coming out on June 1.

Remember, spend $10 in the store and you will get this amazing collab free. It’s bookish, so you know you want it.

Let’s see what is going on in the store this week.

How are your challenges going? If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab (or a variety of other choices from previous challenge collabs) as a reward!

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Fresh Baked! 5/22

May 22, 2026 by 1 Comment

Happy Fresh Baked Friday, scrappy friends! I am starting to think our designers at secretly meet in the middle of the night and challenge each other to see who can tempt us the most. Because somehow, week after week, they keep creating gorgeous new goodies that make us say, “Okay but THIS is exactly what my scrapbook stash was missing.”
This week’s Fresh Baked releases are packed with inspiration, beautiful details, and all kinds of fun pieces just waiting to land on your next layout. Settle into your happy scrappy place, and let’s check out all the fresh new goodies waiting for you this week!

Any $10 spent in the Gingerscraps store will get you this wonderful bookish kit for Free.

Now for what is new in the store. I’m seeing a lot spring colors in the kits this week.

How are your challenges going? If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab (or a variety of other choices from previous challenge collabs) as a reward!

Filed Under: Digital Scrapbooking, Fresh Baked

Tutorial Tuesday (Individual Style)

May 20, 2026 by 1 Comment

Challenge Spotlight: That’s Entertainment

Before I get too deep into the weeds here, thank you all for your thoughtfulness and understanding. I do feel a lot better today (despite not having slept too well… for several nights now) and should be fine again soon. Now, let’s get down to business!

I must say, I absolutely LOVE this new-for-2026 That’s Entertainment Challenge. It brings together so many things that I truly enjoy: musicals, the use of song titles or lyrics as inspiration, thinking outside the box and scrapbooking. The premise relates to Broadway or movie musicals, taking the title of one song from the show for inspiration. (Now, if I could find some motivation to actually create a layout, I’d be laughing!) The Challenge is hosted by Lori, one half of Scraps N Pieces and it’s genius! So let’s look at what Lori chose as her prompt…

My oldest daughter appeared in a high school production of Oklahoma! many years ago, and both she and our middle grandson are active in their community theatre in Northbrook, Illinois. So this one is special to me. Here’s the set list for the show:

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
Laurey’s Entrance
Surrey With the Fringe on Top
Kansas City
I Cain’t Say No
Many a New Day
It’s a Scandal! It’s a Outrage!
People Will Say We’re in Love
Pore Jud Is Daid
Lonely Room
Out of My Dreams
Farmer and the Cowman
All Er Nothin’
Oklahoma!

Lori commented: “I’m thinking we are going to get a lot of Oh What A Beautiful Morning. We shall see.” Was she right? There were eleven layouts in the thread and the Gallery, so we’ll know for sure soon!

The first layout is from dricamendes. (Click on her name for a closer look – it’s hyperlinked to the Gallery.) She used a photo of a smiling couple vacationing together in Japan, and did NOT choose Oh What a Beautiful Morning. 😉 The layout itself is quite simple, pulling colours from the floral background paper for the title and cluster. The filmstrip suggests there are more photos from that trip.

Here, granny5pics has also used a floral paper prominently. She used the title song for her title, and showcased some photos from a visit to Oklahoma she made. I love how she tied in some sheet music and guitar chords to reflect one of her favourite memories of that trip.

For her layout, teenybop61 also chose the title song. She created a grid-style layout with a photo of the state’s welcome sign paired with some symbols representing the state. (Gotta say, the musk ox confuses me. 😀 )

Jill too didn’t choose Oh What a Beautiful Morning. She sense of humour really shines here, and I think we might be twins separated at birth. All of her choices of papers and embellishments have a feminine feel; she’s playing into the stereotype of women loving chocolate, especially at that “special time” each month. Did you know there’s a physiological reason for those chocolate cravings? It relates to magnesium deficiency – chocolate is actually a SUPPLEMENT!

Grace. went with Lonely Room. Her palette pulls from her photos. Her choice of elements reflects solitude and comfort… but I’m not convinced it necessarily equates with loneliness. Sounds like heaven to me!

Ooh, another high school production of the play, this time starring a family member of alexandergirl68. I wondered if anyone would choose this title and how they’d scrap it. Wondering no more! And she chose perfect elements to add to the theme. I’m not lucky enough to have photos of my daughter’s performance – no cellphone cameras in those days.

Windswept chose the title song and focused on the history of the state for her grid-style layout.

Well, how to categorize this layout by MemmieNelleke… she used Oklahoma as a title, but Oh What a Beautiful Morning – literally the SONG – as the topic. The layout is a little musical, a little historical and a little biographical. Her elements are folksy and that poster is really different!

I’ll confess, I had to think about this one to see how it meets the Challenge criteria. Duh…. there’s a song called Kansas City. AlyciaIN kept things quite simple with baseball-themed elements.

I’d know this was a msbrad layout without looking at the credits. She loves her cruises, and so many of her layouts are cruise-related. Now, this layout is very clearly an Oh What a Beautiful Morning layout. Look at that sunrise! I love the blend-and-frame look, and the careful colour choices.

Another gorgeous sunrise – OWABM – is the focus for lebjs, supported by the quote she used for journaling. That inset stack of papers. photo and ocean-related elements reinforces the theme.

Okay… so if we’re keeping score, there are 2 Oh What a Beautiful Morning layouts for sure, with a third teetering. There are 3 totally Oklahoma! layouts, with a fourth teetering. So Lori has guess wrong! Which title would YOU choose? I’d love to come up with something for It’s a Scandal! It’s a Outrage! that is funny but truthful. I’ll have to see what I can dream up.

 

 

 

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Tune in Tomorrow

May 19, 2026 by 5 Comments

GingerScrappers, I’m under the weather today. I thought I could just push through but sadly, that’s not looking good. I hope to be up and at ’em tomorrow for the May Challenge Spotlight.

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May 15, 2026: Gingerscraps Fresh Baked Friday!

May 15, 2026 by 1 Comment

Happy Friday Friends!! Can you believe that we are at the middle of May? That means that in addition to our normal Friday Fresh Bake items, we also have the beginning of the May Bake Sale. So many wonderful thing to add to your shopping cart.

Any $10 spent in the Gingerscraps store will get you this wonderful bookish kit for Free.

Now for what is new in the store. I’m seeing a lot spring colors in the kits this week.

Today is also the beginning of the May Bake Sale. Beautiful full kits for only $1.50.

How are your challenges going? If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab (or a variety of other choices from previous challenge collabs) as a reward!

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Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements)

May 12, 2026 by 5 Comments

Digital Zen Doodling (Part 3 of maybe 5)

I’m thinking maybe nobody’s really gung-ho about digital Zen doodling, but I’m going to press on. Can’t possibly just leave it unfinished, right? I didn’t get any guidance on which space to fill next so I made an executive decision.

Many of the steps for this shape are the same as for the others, so I probably won’t be as wordy as I can be. 😉 The Magic Wand Tool option I used here is the one that has the fairy-princess-looking icon with the yellow six-pointed star at the tip. I just clicked inside the desired target on the main Mandala layer with it to Select the edges of it. (I’ve outlined it in red just for visibility – the marching ants are hard to see.)

Yep, you guessed it. I popped a New Layer above the Mandala layer for the changes I want to make on this shape.

By using Edit>Copy (CTRL/CMD>C) I can Duplicate only the shape inside the marching ants. The active layer for this step must be the Mandala layer.

With the New Layer active Edit>Paste (CTRL/CMD>V) will drop a perfect Copy of the shape right there.

I’m going to make some um… concentric isn’t quite the right word, but let’s go with it… lines inside the shape. So again, I CTRL/CMD>Clicked on the Layer Thumbnail to Select the edges of the shape (in red for visibility only).

For ultimate Editability (did I make up a new word?) the Stroke (Outline Selection) should be on its own Layer.

Let’s use Black (hex code 000000), 10 pixels for the Width and put it Inside the Selection at 100% Opacity.

This may seem repetitious (duh!) but you really can’t do anything else unless you Select>Deselect (CTRL/CMD>D) whatever is surrounded by marching ants.

Yeah, you guessed it. I’m just going to Select those edges again… so that I can make more outlines. CTRL/CMD>Click the Thumbnail, then Select>Modify…>Contract to make the Selection smaller.

I want the new outline to be smaller, but still leave room for at least one more decrease, so I had to try a couple of numbers in the box before I settled on 30 pixels. (Remember, CTRL/CMD>Z is always there to Undo whatever isn’t working.)

I’m keeping all these outline Strokes on the same layer. Elements has remembered my settings so I can just Edit>Stroke (Outline Selection…)

… and click OK.

I repeated those steps one more time.

Let’s add some colour. I tried with the Paint Bucket, filling in the gaps between the black outlines, and it was UGLY. So I went down to the white shape Layer and tried again. Fail.

This method has never let me down. 😉 Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color…

This menu opens. I know from previous fails that I have to tick the Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask box, otherwise I’ll just have a solid colour fill the whole screen.

When the Color Picker opened I chose a bright orange.

To solidify everything I Activated both the orange and the striped layers and Merged them.

Then I decided I should connect up the corners. I used the Pencil Tool the same way as in the last installment. Click the Tool at the starting point, hold down the SHIFT key then click at the end point.

Last steps were to make 7 Copies of the orange stripy shape, Move and position them into their assigned spots and Merge the whole kit and caboodle.

Progress to this point. I like it a lot! I’m thinking hard about how to fill the large centre circle. Could be fun!

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this experiment, it’s that my vision is really not what it used to be, even with appropriate correction. The cursor is getting harder and harder to see… and giving me mild headaches. There may be some hard choices coming for me. 🙁 But I can absolutely see well enough for a Challenge Spotlight next week! Will one of your layouts be given a starring role?

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May 9, 2026: Gingerscraps Fresh Baked Friday!

May 8, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Happy Friday y’all. I hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to a fabulous weekend.

Any $10 spent in the Gingerscraps store will get you this wonderful bookish kit for Free.

Now for the fun things the designers have for us this week.

Have you gotten started on your challenges? If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab (or a variety of other choices from previous challenge collabs) as a reward!

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May 1 2026: New Buffet, Fresh Baked, iNSD Sales, Fun and Games and SO MUCH MORE!

May 1, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Happy May Day my friends. We have a MASSIVE newsletter today. Hang onto your scrapbooking software because this one is loaded. We have:

May Buffet

Friday Fresh Baked

iNSD Sales and Games

New Free with Purchase Kit

New Monthly Mix Kit

New Daily Download

New Challenge Reward Kit

Are you still with me? Let’s jump  right in with the iNSD Celebration. Do you like books? If you do, the FWP Mega is going to make your book-loving heart very happy.

Next let’s look at the May Buffet. Don’t forget to check out the Buffet Bundles. One easy click to add bundles of Buffet goodies to your cart.

I love what the designers did with the colors this month. Remember that you can combine any of the buffet kits to make your own collection.

More happiness for our book lovers!

Lost in a Good Book is a cozy and comforting kit designed for book lovers and quiet moments. With a rich neutral palette, this collection is filled with stacks of books, reading accents, and warm details that capture the joy of getting lost in a favorite story. Perfect for book club layouts, library visits, reading nooks, and peaceful afternoons curled up with a good book, this kit brings a sense of calm and inspiration to your pages. Whether you are documenting your latest read or your love of storytelling, Lost in a Good Book is the perfect companion.

This collab includes 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 58 Papers, and 96 Elements.

This Free With Purchase was created by WM[squared] Designs, Wetfish Designs, Angelle Designs, J. Conlon and Sons, and JB Studio.

Retro Spring bursts onto your pages with bold color and playful energy. Inspired by the vibrant end of spring, this kit is filled with bright hues, glowing sunsets, cute insects, whimsical critters, and fun outdoor elements. It captures the carefree feeling of longer days, warm evenings, and time spent outside enjoying the season. Perfect for scrapping adventures, nature walks, backyard fun, and colorful spring memories, Retro Spring brings a lively and nostalgic twist to your layouts.

This kit includes 2 Alphas {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 61 Papers, and 76 Elements.

This Monthly Mix was created by Aprilisa Designs, CathyK Designs, Neia Scraps, and Twin Mom Scraps.

May’s Daily Download is provided by Let Me Scrapbook. Stop by the blog each day in May to collect pieces of this beautiful kit.

Take a look at the new challenge reward kit. If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab (or a variety of other choices from previous challenge collabs) as a reward!

Vintage Memories is a heartfelt collection inspired by treasured keepsakes and the charm of days gone by. Reminiscent of items tucked away in grandma’s attic, this kit is filled with family heirlooms, nostalgic accents, and beautifully aged details that tell a story. With a soft vintage feel, it is perfect for preserving heritage photos, family history, and meaningful moments passed down through generations. Vintage Memories adds warmth, depth, and timeless beauty to every layout.

This kit includes 1 Alpha1 {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 49 Papers, 58 Elements, and 4 12×12 Template {png, page, psd & tiff formats}.

This Challenge Reward was created by Jumpstart Designs, Kristmess, Lisa Rosa Designs, and Miss Fish Templates.

Not only do we have iNSD, the wonderful Buffet and other first of the month goodies, it’s also Friday and that means Fresh Baked goodies too!

And more for our book lovers. Did you know that Gingerscraps has a Book Club? Check out May’s book choices in the Hey Good Bookin’ area of the forum. There are places for discussions, book suggestions, and more! Hop on over to see what our fabulous Grace has listed for May.

Gingy says “Enjoy the iNSD Celebration” !!

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